Date: 1713
"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns"
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1713
"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: / Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains / Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule maintains."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1713
"Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne, / Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone: / At her Command intestine Discords cease, / And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1714
"Thus when Revenge does Reason's Scepter rule, / It turns the Wisest Statesman to a Fool"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1714, 1735
"Alas! 'tis so--'tis fix'd the secret Dart; / I feel the Tyrant [Love] ravaging my Heart."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)